Ancient Egyptian Funeral Procession!

It's the summer term and we're back to tell you what we've been getting up to...
Tuesday was our first day back, we started to make our canopic jars ready for our Ancient Egyptian Funeral Procession at the end of the week. We used mod-rock and got really dirty, but it was fun nonetheless!

On Wednesday, green maths set practised the 'chunking method' for division using 'chunking challenge' cards and 'brain buster' cards! In the afternoon, we had a speaking and listening literacy lesson to find out who we think murdered Tutankhamun. Which one of these suspects do you think it was???

    The Tomb Builders?    


    King Tut's doctor?

    Uncle Aye?  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  Or...  King Tut's wife?

After literacy, we all went swimming for the last time.
On Thursday we painted our canopic jars using gold and bronze paint, and added some hieroglyphics to them in pen.

On Friday, we finished our newspaper reports by writing captions for our pictures of Howard Carter's discovery. 
At the end of the day we did our funeral procession for a Pharaoh, down the corridor. 

We had four 'professional mourners' - their job was to wail loudly and to pull at their hair and clothes.  Miss Doyle found it so funny, she couldn't stop laughing and even started to cry!!

The professional mourners are wailing loudly here, and waving their hands around wildly, tearing at their hair and clothes!!

The priest led the way, followed by two children carrying the coffin of the Pharaoh.  Isis and Nephesis walked alongside the coffin to help protect and guide the dead body to the afterlife whilst some children played musical instruments to help create an atmosphere.  When we got to the hall, we pretended to cross the River Nile in boats.  Then we wrote spells in 'The Book of The Dead' and said prayers to help the dead body reach the afterlife, safely.

Writing in 'The book of the Dead'

The priest performed 'The opening of the mouth' cermony which was a very important part of the funeral.  He touched the dead person's face with a sacred stone which was meant to open the dead person's eyes and allow them to see, eat and speak in their afterlife.

 

We've had a great week!

Next week, we will start our new topic 'Global Gourmet'.  It means we get to taste foods from different countries - yummy!  Stay tuned to find out what we get up to.
Bye for now!

Written by Class 4D